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Wednesday October 16, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE O Flu Rampage Continues Across Nation as Number of Deaths By UNITED PRESS Flu outbreaks killed at least 12 persons five of them Penn sylvania school children, in a continuing rampage among the nation's young. The disease appeared to be gathering strength from one end of the nation to the other, with children the chief victims of t'.e Asian flu and other respir atory ailments. At least seven deaths blamed on the flu were reported in Penn aylvania in the past 43 hours. One flu-connected death each oc curred in Wisconsin, Utah, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Five children died and four others were critically ill in a tragic influenza epidemic at the Pennsylvania State Training school for the mentally-retarded near Philadelphia. Tests To Determine Type The disease hit 833 of the school s 3,149 children and 56 of its 400 employees. Tests were begun to determine whether the flu was of the Asian variety. Four of the dead children who Britain Said Controlling Of H-Bomb London IP British scien tists believed today they have brought man to the brink of a new and greater industrial rev olution. They were reported close to controlling the power of the H-bomb for peaceful pur poses. At present, this possible key to another major scientific break through is in the laboratory test ing stage at Britain's atomic re search center at Harwell. The result will not be an nounced officially until exper iments have been completed with the test apparatus called '"Zeta." which scientists say can fuse the atomic nuclei of a gas called "heavy" hydrogen. Scientists Confident "The experiments are still in progress," an authoritative spokesman si id. "Their conclu sion may be pretty close. The scientists ipprar confident they have tchieved the first labora tory tep towards fusion." Hopes are centered around a CALENDAR Calendar aotlces and tieni for Snf societv section of The Mai) Tribune must be submitted in ritine and deadline for the Sun 4av edition ts 1 Dm Fndav Dead Tine for the weekly calendar is 9 m of the dav of publication and for week day new is 5 BJn the ftay before publication. Wednesday: 15 p.m. Rogue River Val ley Knife and Fork club, Rogue Valley Country club. 8 p.m. First Methodist church circle 6. Mrs. George Tro bough, 1006 East Jackson st. 8 p.m. Roxy Ann Home Economics club, home of Mrs. Ernest Larsen, 23 Corning court. Thursday: 10:30 a.m. First Presbyterian church. Phoenix, Woman's asso ciation, at church. 10:30 a.m. Lone Pine Exten sfon unit, home of Mrs. H. B. Mitchell, 3082 Buckshot rd. 12:30 p.m. Blue Star Mothers club of America, home of Mrs. Helen Watson, 6190 Catherine st. 12:30 p.m. Wenonah club, home of Mrs. Floyd Lewis. 710 Sherman st. 2 p.m. Sams Valley Ladies club, home of Mrs. Elwood Ab- j bott. Highway 234. Phoenix Club Phoenix Phoenix Neighbors! of Woodcraft will hold a social meeting Thursday evening, Oc tober 17. at the home of Mrs. Delbert Cook, 304 Colver road, Phoenix. IOV IN CALORIES HIGH IN VITAMINC. BONE-BUILDING MINERALS STEIXFELD'S 1 No. ice perk ait bake Get Your FREE Copy of Steinfeld's New "Cooking with Kraut" Booklet. Send your name and address to Seinfeld's, Cept N, 10001 N. Polk. Portland, Oregon. ranged in age from six to 16 years, were recent admissions. Dr. Leopold Potkonski, school superintendent, said none of the victims had been '"in too good physical shape." None of the children in the institution had received Asian flu inoculations. Another flu outbreak caught up with a speeding North West ern road train, forcing it to make an emergency stop at Eiroy, Wis., yesterday so doctors could treat 14 stricken children. The youths, members of a St. Margarets High school, Chica go, class returning from a stu dent tour to the Black Hills, S. D., came down with nausea and high fever. The train was de layed 37 minutes while the stu dents were treated. Soprano Cancels Appearance In Chicago, the flu forced It alian soprano Renata Tebaldi to cancel an appearance, but proved a boost to the operatic career of substitute Anna Maria Kun, 29. Mme. Tebaldi was stricken hours before she was to appear Near Power for Peace gas-filled circular glass tube that looks like a doughnut. For a thousandth part of a second it lights the faces of watching Brit ish scientists. And it is this that makes them confident they have discovered a way of controlling the energy that gives the H bomb its colossal blast so that it can be used to fuel homes and industry. Ahead of U.S., Russia The Atomic Energy authority cautiously admits that the sci entists could be close to achiev ing what officials call "a thermonuclear reaction" con ceded to be of tremendous sig nificance. The AEA would go no further than to say that a temperature "beyond one million degrees" had been achieved. This indicated the British were ahead of American and So viet scientists seeking the same end. More Exhibitors Needed for Fair Additional exhibitors are need ed to round out a full schedule of space allocations for the Southern Oregon Safety Fair, ac cording to Myron Terpening, general chairman of the event. Tepening, safety director of the Bate Lumber company. Grants Pass, has invited all southern Oregon firms and or ganizations to participate in the safety exposition scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Nation al Guard Armory in Medford. William Bell, safety inspector with the state industrial acci dent commission, chairman of the program committee, reported that there is no charge to exhib itors and ther will be no ad mission charge. Several special events have been tentatively planned, includ ing a safety poster contest for school children, demonstrations of pole top resuscitation and free safety movies, Terpening said. 13 Per Cent Increase In Enrollment at OSC Corvallis ill" Oregon State college recorded a 13 per cent increase in student enrollment over last year, from 6,779 to 7,664. the registrar's office said today. The office said it was the high est enrollment in OSC's history. The previous high was 7,489 stu dents in 1947-48. There are 5.618 men. and 2, 046 women students this year. 'U KRAUT IS OVEX DIXXER 2 i cm StelnfeWs uuerkraut 1 i'iceJ raw poao, about 1 cuo 1 large oicn, slited 4 thick po'k eopj Ss't d popr V'tv. pe'a'o and onin lye-j in baking dvh. B'owo ehopi on both idei. Seascn with and pepper. Arrange hop on kraut, cover and baie at 350 degrees 1 hour. Uncover end 10 minute longer to re-brown chops. Serves four. in the Lyric Opera Company's performance of "Othello." Miss j Kuhn, who had sung the role j only once, flew to Chicago from j Philadelphia as a substitute and j won the plaudits of the audience ! and critics. J Other flu outbreaks forced i the shutdown of dozens of ! schools throughout the country j and at least four colleges Wash- ington and Jefferson college. Washington, Pa.; Lehigh and Lycoming colleges in Pennsyl vania and Beloit college, Beloit, Wis. Elsewhere, the flu outbreak by states was as follows: Iowa: About four dozen high schools closed in widespread outbreak. Arizona: Health authorities es timate about 36,000 flu cases. Idaho: Health department re ports 4,012 cases of flu last week to bring year's total to 8,604, or 10 times the number reported during all of 1956. Nebraska: About 20 per cent of Omaha's public school pupils outwith flu, 2,100 of them high school students. Mercy H ig h school closed, but expected to reopen today. Minnesota: Flu caused up t o 40 per cent absenteeism at four Minneapolis and suburban high schools yesterday. Absenteeism also high at Austin, Mountain Iron and Hutchinson. A total of 120 students hospitalized at the University of Minnesota. Wanes in California California: Asian flu appear ed on the wane at Los Angeles and Orange county schools, but doctors warned the decline may be only a lull. Illinois: An outbreak believed to be of the Asian variety kept 40 per cent of 3,385 high school students home in the Chicago suburb of New Trier. The Uni versity of Illinois set up an em- Russian Espionage Agenl Says Money Kept for Himself New York (IP) A Russian espionage agent who allegedly worked for accused master spy Col. Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, testified today that he kept for himself a S5,000 payment that Moscow had ordered given to the wife of convicted atom spy Morton Sobell. The government witness, for mer Soviet Lt. Col. Reino Hay hanen, told a federal court jury that he and Abel had buried the money in Bear Mt. State park in 1955. Hayhanen said he later dug it up and "kept it myself." He testified Tuesday that he had not been able to deliver the money to Mrs. Helen Sobell be cause the police were watching her Manhattan apartment. j Second Payment Deposited Hayhanen said Abel told him a second S5.000 payment Yrder ed by Moscow for Mrs. Sobell had been deposited in a bank. He said he did not know wheth er this sum w-as ever transmitted to Mrs. Sobell. The impassive witness gave this testimony at the close of direct examination by Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen. Wil liam F. Tompkins. Further details of the alleged connection between Abel and the Roseniberg spy ring, of which Sobell was a member, were expected to be brought out under cross-examination by Abel's attorney, James B. Don ovan. Indiana Paper Given Permit To Tog Cors Decatur, Ind. HP The De catur Democrat today had the authority to back up its cam paign against parking violators with legal action. The newspa per has been campaigning for six months to have police crack down on parking violators. Tues day, police officials sent the edi tor a book of 25 blank arrest checks and this note: "It has been brought to our attention that since you have been checking trucks on yellow lines, double parking, parking meters, etc., it would be appre ciated if you would tag same. Find enclosed one ticket book. Signed: Police Department. Portland Records 33rd Traffic Death Portland (W Portlands 33rd 1957 traffic death was marked up today after Mrs. Ida Hartung. 66, succumbed to in juries sufiered Sept. 26 when struck by a car. Mrs. Murley Cousin, 65, who was struck by the same car also died from injuries. Fur Restyling Your fgrs get a real face-lifting here. W clean and repair ... re store like-new looks. What's more, at a moderate price we'll com pletely remodel your fur coat, giv ing it all the season's fashion news. Frances9 Furs Formerly Frances Dallaire 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Telephone SP 2-6526 ergency ward when the campus hospital was filled to capacity with 165 flu patients. Washington: All schools clos ed at Battle Ground. Michigan: Flu widespread in western and north central sec tions of the state. Colorado: All schools closed at Alamosa and Vroman. Pennsylvania: Nine parochial schools in Pittsburgh and sub urbs closed. Wisconsin: All schools in Co lumbia county closed. DRAMATIC 80 per cent re duction in polio over past two years is reported in AVashington by Marion B. Folsom, health department secretary. . (International) Gunman Takes $717 From Portland Bank Portland (IP) A nervous appearing gunman held up the Stadium branch of the U. S. National bank shortly before caped with $717. Reed Verbeck, a teller. laid the man carried a gun and ord ered him to hand over the mon ey warning "I've got a .38 point ed at your belly." He said the man left via a rear door. The holdup occurred about 5:15 p.m. The robber was described as ab mt 5 feet 8 inches tall, weigh ing about 140 to 145 pounds, about 30 years old and needing a shave. Grange Notes j Griffin Creek Grange j Griffin Creek Grange met Oct. , 10 with a large attendance and j all officers present. Work is progressing on the new cupboard and drainboards. Committees were appointed to handle the rummage sale to be held at the Eagles hall Oct. 12. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Slyter, former members now living in Dayton, Ore., were present. A program on fire prevention was given by Lecturer Lulu Sturgill and a "This Is Your ; Life" stunt in which Slyter and ; Chaplain Iva Harper were par-, ticipants, they both having Oct. ! 9 as their birthdays, brought forth many humorous incidents, j ... Lunch was served by the Chis-! holms and Biermas, which in- eluded a huge birthday cake baked by Mrs. Chisholm. The HEC will meet Oct. 17 j at the George Mero house. This will be a covered dish luncheon. ..IN THE History pnarmacy by ED HALL The Persian called Rhazes (865-925) is believed to have been the first to introduce chemical preparations into the practice of medicine. He it also the man who is re sponsible for the beginning of scientific chemistry. Apotheca is the Latin form of Apotheke. During early Rome this word was applied to storage rooms for wine but in the middle age the term was restricted to store rooms for spices and drugs thus Apothecary. We urge you to take ad vantage of the extra savirTgs offered during Central Drug's Big Rexall 1c Sale. You are sure to find something you need among the many items offered at reduced prices. See us for Cosmetics, Cam era Supplies, Toilet Goods, Gift Items and Reliable Pre scriptions. CENTRAL. REXALL DRUG, Main and Central. 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